learning goals
-10 responsibilities of organizations under PIPEDA
- US privacy like FACTA, FCRA
-there may be purpose to disclosing information
-RFID tags
-Walmart and Wartham
-efficient supply chain
-requires all manufacturers to put in RFID tag in shipment
-save labour, time, cost
-better logistics.
-RFID passports
-need special equipment to read them
5.5 US Legislation
-FCRA, credit records kept for 7 yrs only
-FSMA, security, malware, encryption
-safeguards rule
-COPPA, protect consent
-HIPPAA, health records, prevent discrimination because of health issues
-RQ: why is medical history considered so private?
-ppl don\t have a choice for genetic disorders
-other info not so private
-salaries of public employees.
Jul
20
2010
20
2010
Filed under CPSC430
Jul
17
2010
17
2010
Filed under CPSC430
-Privacy rooted in older philosophical traditions
- physical, knowledge, homes
-Edmund Byrne
-asked Too much privacy?
-1950′ post WWII – families get smaller, less of a close knit community
- ppl are isolated from each other
-Not illegal to take photos of others in a public space
-everyone else has cameras too
-Canadian charter of rights and freedoms
-is there a right to privacy in Canada?
- not really
-Charter: life, liberty and security of person
-search and seizure
-everyone has the right to be secure
-Invisible information gathering
-10 principles of model code – think of these when evaluating case studies
-PIPEDA (late 1990s)
-response not to anticipate sites like Facebook
-to promote consumer trust on electronic commerce
-to make things smoother when info is collected
-EU was passing privacy collection laws, companies that didn’t have similar privacy laws at the same level couldn’t do business with them
Jul
14
2010
14
2010
Filed under CPSC430
A question on my CPSC430 midterm mentioned Microsoft suing a 17-year old by the name of Mike Rowe for owning the domain mikerowesoft.com. The story is pretty interesting for me because this guy lives relatively near me in Victoria, seems to be either 2 or 3 years older than me and was a web designer. In 2004 I was in grade 10 and was doing a web design mentor-ship type project with the web maintainer of my local library, and I owned my first domain then too. Luckily my domain name then was some quasi-poetic thing that only a teenage girl would come up with and could not have in any shape or form be associated with a software giant!
Mike Rowe though, his funny domain name was phonetically similar to Microsoft, who sent legal papers to him and then ordering that he hand his domain name over to them…and when he refused, Microsoft offered him $10! Well at least they had the decency to not offer him $9.98, the price to register a new .com (at NameCheap at least)? Mike then asked for $10K but settled out of court for an Xbox, a trip to Redmond, and Microsoft certification training.
Well, I’m glad the story had a somewhat happy ending. But an Xbox – really?! And I seem to remember reading on Engadget about really young kids (10? 13? I don’t remember exactly) passing MS certification tests, so I don’t know how good those are…sure, those must have been some smart young kids but still. And I understand that Microsoft works hard to keep their brand unique, and to not have their trademark diluted. But seriously, who is going to confuse mikerowesoft with Microsoft? Goes to show that companies are serious about their trademark, I guess! But sometimes it confuses me that there hasn’t been a lawsuit. For example apple computer and MAC cosmetics. Everyone calls apple computers “Mac”s and everyone pronounces MAC “Mac” as well (technically it’s M.A.C). It’s true that they’re in completely different fields but it’s still the exact phonetically! Who’s going to get confused between computers and make up? ME! When I first started getting into cosmetics I was confused by MAC, I was like “aren’t they a computer company?” This is probably because I was a geek way before turning into a girly-girl. But I can’t be the only one!